I find that ChatGPT over the last ~n months is burning a lot more "think time" on "gee, people don't like my user agent and have actively banned me from looking at their website, let me spend ~x time trying to work around that." A huge advantage for Google / Gemini.
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.. or any company that, I guess, unethically indexes websites and/or comes up with a way to pretend to be a "real user" with a "real web browser" on a "real device".. which is VASTLY slower, by the way, by the pure definition of the task itself. Humans ain't that fast. If nothing else it's a huge time and energy sink.
@codinghorror playwright driving a real browser in a VM never hurt anybody!
@codinghorror that's every LLM vendor though, they all do it
@aburka who paywalls the paywall?
@aburka well.. true. True. But.. sustainable? I dunno. "This one thing in charge of ALL THE OTHER THINGS EVER" just makes me nervous on principle
@codinghorror very close to nothing happening in modern society is sustainable
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